As we all know, Chinese netizens are a magical group, up to the aircraft carrier and the construction process of 055 down to a variety of sand sculpture pictures, that is really what pictures can be found, the U.S. Navy said good [cover your face]. Recently, military fans have found a photo with a very forbidden amount. Photos show the Kilo-class submarines being dismantled. After seeing this photo, the plate instantly became energetic, jumped up and pondered a little and lay down. But there are a lot of people in this photo, so the plate also comes to join in the fun.
At the end of an era, at the beginning of the modernization of China's submarine force, the Type 877 Kilo-class submarine appeared in the shipbreaking yard
The photographs show a rather modern-looking submarine with a teardrop-shaped hull design stranded on a shoal by the seaside with a warship.
The tail of the submarine in the picture has no obvious step-like disconnection, and the transition is very smooth, so the boat should be a Type 877 Kilo-class conventional power submarine, not a Type 636 Kilo-class conventional powered submarine (NATO code name pit man, the Soviet Union said that 636 and 877 can be the same, but the NATO code name is at least stronger than the Soviet Union's kind of weapon seven or eight names!). )
Moored to the left of this Kilo is the Type 053H1 guided missile frigate Linfen (for details, please see: 053H1 Status Inventory, 6 Museums 4 in service, who was dismantled together with the Kilo class)
When they saw this photo, many military fans sighed and thought it was the end of an era, because the Kilo-class submarines were of great significance to China. The submarines of the Chinese Navy before Kilo were really backward, there was no silence tile and no water drop hull, and the service of the Kilo class opened up the modernization of China's submarine force, allowing China's conventional power submarine force to have a series of high-tech such as boat-launched missiles, so that Chinese submarines changed from the original long strip to the current droplet shape.
In 1995, it was shipped to China's 877EKM
In the 1990s, China imported 12 Kilo-class submarines into the Russian Navy in three batches, the first two were purchased in 1994 for about $520 million, two Type 877 and two Type 877EKM submarines, and the second and third batches cost a total of about $2.12 billion, bringing in two Type 636 submarines and eight Type 636M submarines.
Although the Type 877EKM submarine and the Type 636M submarine are both Kilo-class submarines in nato's eyes, the performance of the three is very different. The 877EKM can only launch direct torpedoes and wake self-guided torpedoes, the Type 636 has the ability to launch wire-guided torpedoes, and the 636M type is amazing, and it can launch 3M-54E club anti-ship missiles through the launch tube, which is not twice as strong as the ship's strike capability.
After China introduced the Kilo-class, the anechoic tiles on the Kilo-class submarines, as well as the engine shock absorbing base and the design of the boat-launched missile, had a great impact on China's Type 039 submarines. However, these are all old yellow calendars, and now the conventional power submarines of the Chinese Navy are already stable and first-class in the world, while Russia's conventional powered submarines have not improved.
The two earliest Kilo ships in service in the Chinese Navy were in service in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and these two submarines were not new but were ordered by Libya in the late 1980s, and were built in 1989 and 1990, respectively. More than thirty years have passed since the two boats were built.
In addition, these two 877EKM Kilo after entering the Chinese Navy, undertook a very heavy combat readiness and training tasks, the use of intensity, so the consumption of the service life will be more intense, more importantly, the 877EMK type Kilo does not have the ability to launch wire-guided torpedoes, and the upgrade of conventional power submarines is extremely cumbersome and China is not the design country of the Kilo class submarines, so if you want to upgrade the Kilo class submarines, the Chinese shipyard first needs to push back the design of the Kilo, the upgrade is too difficult, So the Kilo-class submarines are not worth upgrading.
India's 877
In short, after nearly thirty years of service for the two boats, the first two Kilos of the Chinese Navy seem to have the conditions for retirement.
But the Type 035 submarine is old enough, right? The combat effectiveness is bad enough, right? Rao is so that Bangladesh and Myanmar have each bought two 035 back, and the 877EKM is still an important part of the Indian Navy's submarine force, not to mention that Kilo's 035B submarines have not been retired, and it will not be able to retire the Kilo-class submarines for a while and a half!
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Of course, the photos are not deceiving, so many readers may say, what else can the shipbreaking yard be in the 877EKM Kilo? Is the plate a mess? The question is are you sure that the Kilo in the shipbreaking yard is the Chinese Kilo?
China has dismantled a lot of Kilo, how to conclude that the boat is the Kilo of the Chinese Navy, not the Russian Navy?
Jingjiang Dunfeng Shipbreaking Co., Ltd. is a shipbreaking factory with great achievements, and the plates do not completely count the Russian submarines dismantled by the Jingjiang Shipbreaking Co., Ltd.
In October 2001, the shipbreaking yard dismantled two G-class submarines of the Russian Navy and arrived at the shipbreaking yard;
On October 26, 2003, the first vessel of the Russian decommissioned Type 877 Kilo-class submarine, B-248, arrived at the shipbreaking yard;
On November 16, 2003, the K-91 Order type 629 Golf-class ballistic missile submarine arrived at the shipbreaking yard;
On October 17, 2007, the Warsaw Man, a Kilo-class submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet, arrived at the shipbreaking yard;
In recent years, the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet has also retired several Kilo-class submarines, so can it really be concluded that the dismantled Kilo is not the Kilo of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet? Even if Kilo, who is now decommissioned by the Russian Navy, is now mainly dismantled by the Russian shipbreaking yard itself, in any case, the Kilo that appears in the Chinese shipbreaking yard still has the possibility of coming from Russia. However, the probability of this possibility is about 10%.
Type 877EKM submarine
Therefore, the Kilo that is being dismantled is most likely the Chinese Navy's own, and the specific reason why this ship was decommissioned early and fell into the shipbreaking yard is unknown. But the plate sincerely hopes that after the dismantling of the Kilo, it can be reassembled in a Chinese city and revitalized.
In the sister article, a reader mentioned that this decommissioned Kilo was not the one who saved himself from the cliff. In fact this may not exist, the 372 boat that rescued itself off the cliff is 636M, while the 877 of this ship is being dismantled.